This two day course provides a comprehensive introduction to Adobe Animate. It starts with an overview of the Animate interface and how to set stage properties.
You'll explore Animates drawing tools, working with vectors, gradients, and layers, and learn how to integrate Animate with Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Having mastered the basic animation principles, including timelines, keyframes, and shape tweens, you will discover classic tween techniques, creating graphic symbols and using motion guides.
The course also covers interactivity, working with code snippets, and publishing for different browsers and devices. This is a practical course ensuring a comprehensive understanding of Adobe Animate.
If attending an online course you must have a licensed copy of any software required and access to a suitable computer.
You need no previous experience to attend this course.
Course leader is an Adobe Certified Expert
Course Dates | Days | Location | Places | RRP | Discount | You Pay | |
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14-15th Jul 25 | Mon-Tue | London Bridge | Available | £499.00 | £100.00 | £399.00 + VAT | |
11-12th Sep 25 | Thu-Fri | London Bridge | Available | £499.00 | £70.00 | £429.00 + VAT | |
1-2nd Dec 25 | Mon-Tue | London Bridge | Available | £499.00 | £499.00 + VAT | ||
23-24th Mar 26 | Mon-Tue | London Bridge | Available | £499.00 | £499.00 + VAT |
Course Dates | Days | Location | Places | RRP | Discount | You Pay | |
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13-14th Aug 25 | Wed-Thu | Online | Available | £499.00 | £70.00 | £429.00 + VAT | |
9-10th Oct 25 | Thu-Fri | Online | Available | £499.00 | £499.00 + VAT | ||
29-30th Jan 26 | Thu-Fri | Online | Available | £499.00 | £499.00 + VAT | ||
21-22nd May 26 | Thu-Fri | Online | Available | £499.00 | £499.00 + VAT |
About File Types: HTML5 Canvas versus Actionscript 3
The Adobe Animate interface
Syncing settings in Animate CC
Creating a new Animate document
Setting stage properties and dimensions
Working with panels and panel layouts
Creating custom panel sets
Rules, guides and grid
Identifying the development cycle
Creating a new file
Publish Settings
Using Object and Shape draw modes
Using the Vector draw tools
Alignment and Transformation Tools and Panels
Modifying Properties
Reshaping Vectors
Working with Live Text
Creating and modifying gradients
Importing and saving swatches
Working with Layers
Using Layer Masks
Integration with Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator
Importing Bitmaps
Timeline Essentials
Understanding the Timeline and Frame Rate
About Frames, Keyframes and Blank Keyframes
Adding, removing and copying from the Timeline
Creating Cell Animations
Creating Shape Tweens
Controlling Shape Tweens
Understanding Motion and Classic Tweens
About Symbols: Graphic, Button and Movie Clip
Creating Graphic Symbols
Exploring the Library
Editing Symbols and Resetting the Registration Point
Fading in and out
Resizing and Rotating
Animating on a Path with Motion Guides
Building self-contained Movie Clip animations
Understanding and applying Easing
Creating Custom Eases
Planning and Storyboards
Character Animation Techniques
Parallax scrolling
Animated Masking
Building and Testing Banner Ads
Creating IK chains with the Bone Tool
Working with the Camera Tool
Integrating Audio and Video
Best practice for file sizes
Exporting as Video and Animated Gif
Creating Buttons
About HTML5 and Javascript
Working with Code Snippets
Linking to websites
Timeline Navigation
Creating loops
Publishing for browsers and devices
About clickTag
Working with AD Agencies
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